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Luis Posada Carriles Gives the Lie To George Bush’s ‘War on Terrorism’

by William F. Wertz, Jr.

Immediately after Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush National Foundation (CANF).2 righteously threatened any nation that “harbored terrorists.” In March, when Rodrı´guez made this threat to Cha´vez, But now, EIR investigations show that the Bush Administra- Posada had just entered the United States via Mexico, using tion itself is harboring a nest of terrorist assassins in Jeb a false passport, and was seeking asylum from the G.W. Bush Bush’s —foremost among them being the Cuban- Administration for past services rendered. On June 4, 2005, born operative , whose career in terror- the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal reported that both ism and intelligence “black bag jobs” spans more than President Cha´vez and Venezuelan Vice President Jose´ Vi- four decades. cente Rangel accused the Pentagon and the CIA of planning On March 10, 2005, long-time CIA asset Fe´lix Rodrı´guez to invade and assassinate Cha´vez. Cha´vez has de- Mendigutia called for U.S. military intervention in Vene- manded that the Bush Administration extradite Posada to zuela, and alluded to the possible assassination of Venezuelan Venezuela, a request that Washington has not yet formally President Hugo Cha´vez, on a TV program.1 Rodrı´guez ruled on. Cha´vez has also charged that former Venezuelan had been the CIA liaison with the Bolivian forces that cap- President Carlos Andre´sPe´rez, who was the Minister of the tured and executed Ernesto “Che” Guevara on Oct. 9, 1967; Interior from 1962-63,3 is involved in operations against him. he later ran the Contra resupply operation in in The terrorists that Bush and Cheney are protecting, are the 1980s, to overthrow the Nicaraguan government on behalf now posing a threat to the emergence in Ibero-America of a of Vice President George H.W. Bush and CIA death squad combination of sovereign nation-states potentially oriented organizer Ne´stor Sa´nchez. towards supporting Lyndon LaRouche’s proposal for a New Rodrı´guez’s deputy in the Iran-Contra operation was Luis Bretton Woods monetary system. The potential for such ac- Posada Carriles, who had just escaped from a Venezuelan tion was reflected in the March 29 summit of the Presidents jail, where he had been incarcerated in connection with the of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela, and the Prime Minister bombing of a Cuban airliner off the coast of in of Spain at which historic agreements were reached for eco- October 1976, which killed 73 people. Rodrı´guez was in- nomic development and integration. That summit took place volved in Posada’s escape in 1985, which was effected by just a few weeks after Fe´lix Rodrı´guez issued his threat to means of a bribe reportedly paid by Jorge Ma´s Canosa, the Cha´vez. now-deceased head of the anti-Castro Cuban American Much of the material accumulated for this report has been derived from extensive counterintelligence investigations

1. On March 10, 2005, Cuban-American journalist conducted an interview on cable TV Channel 22 in Miami, Florida, with Luis 2. www.afrocubaweb.com/posada.htm. See “Gusanos de Miami e intelectu- Pin˜a, from the anti-Cha´vez Venezuelan opposition, and with Fe´lix alesMexicanos:Confundenderechoshumanos ycontrarrevolucionbySalva- Rodrı´guez. Rodrı´guez said that if called upon, he would consider coming out dor del Rio at www.m3w3.com.mx/SIEMPRE/2279/columna/Column- of retirement and going back to Venezuela to take action against President a10.htm1. The , Sept. 5, 1988, reported that his escape was Cha´vez: “I think they are going to have to do something,” he said. When aided by an unidentified Miami benefactor and by Fe´lix Rodrı´guez. Accord- pressed by the interviewer, Rodrı´guez replied, “Yes! There are contingency ing to the NY Latino Journal, in his autobiography, Posada thanked Ma´s plans!” He continued that for “national security reasons . . . there could be Canosa for providing the money for the bribe. Andre´s Jose´ Arana Me´ndez, economic measures at a certain moment, including military measures,” but the chief of the prison, admitted that he helped Posada escape for $28,000. it is “hard to say at this moment” whether a CIA commando could be sent to (FBIS, Jan. 23, 1985). put an end to Cha´vez. Any action against Cha´vez would be done openly, he 3. As a ranking officer in the Directorate for the Services of Intelligence and said. “Look, at a certain moment, he [President Bush] can do it militarily. Prevention (DISIP) beginning in 1967, Posada was employed by the Ministry Rememberthespecificcase ofQaddafi:Theydiditmilitarily withaplane,and of Internal Relations. CAP had been the Minister of Interior from 1962-63. after that Qaddafi did not pose a problem any longer.” When the interviewer Orlando Garcı´a, who had been head of operations of Digepol, the precursor objected that “that’s not physically eliminating Hugo Cha´vez, which is the of the DISIP, became CAP’s personal security advisor in 1964. When CAP question,” Rodrı´guez concluded: “At a certain point, they can do it with a became President in 1974, he appointed Orlando Garcı´a head of operations military attack with a plane.” of the DISIP.

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into a former associate of Lyndon LaRouche, Fernando Qui- vez Democratic Bloc in Venezuela, met with DINA chief jano, who was turned by U.S.-based and other intelligence and operative Juan networks associated with the presently continuing Western Sepu´lveda in 1993 on Quijano’s behalf. Quijano and his asso- Hemisphere operations described in this report, such as those ciate Marivilia Carrasco of Mexico were also directly in associated with Chilean fascist Gen. ’s contact with Spanish fascist Blas Pin˜ar, who is at the center “Operation Condor.”4 of this Fascist International. As EIR has reported, Operation Condor was formally es- tablished in , on Nov. 25, 1975, after Pinochet Posada and the CIA’s Cuban ‘Gusanos’ and 50 members of his secret service, the DINA, attended the Now, to the case of Posada Carriles, and what it reveals funeral of Spanish fascist dictator Gen. Francisco Franco in about Bush’s “War on Terrorism.” . Pinochet had been inspired by Franco, whose war to Posada joined the CIA’s Brigade 2506 in 1961, as part of crush the Second Spanish Republic, launched in 1936, was CIA director Allen Dulles’s abortive “Bay of Pigs” invasion directed by Adolf Hilter’s Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, of . Posada, Avila, and Fe´lix Rodr´ıguez which was headed by Nazi Gen. Wilhelm von Faupel. were also members of the elite intelligence unit called Opera- Quijano became a controlled asset of Leesburg, Virginia tion 40. Other members included Ricardo “el Mono” Mo- resident Ne´stor Sa´nchez in the mid-to-late 1980s, and was rales Navarrete, Virgilio Paz, Jose´ Dionisio Sua´rez and the also known to have met with Jorge Ma´s Canosa. Quijano’s Novo Sampoll brothers, Guillermo and Ignacio.5 Venezuelan agent Alejandro Pen˜a, now within the anti-Cha´- Operation 40 has been suspected by some of involvement in the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on 4. See William F. Wertz, Jr., “Schools’ Plot: Who’s Snuffing Your Neigh- Nov. 22, 1963. Posada Carriles himself was placed by at least bor’s Kittens?’ EIR, April 19, 2002; “The Cristero War on Mexico: Syn- one witness in Dealey Square in Dallas, at the moment of the archism Then and Now,” EIR, July 25, 2003; “The Nazi-Instigated National Synarchist Union of Mexico,” EIR, July 9 and July 16, 2004; “The Ibero- American Solidarity Movement; Anatomy of a Fascist Intelligence Opera- 5. Interview by Jean-Guy Allard of Gen. Fabia´n Escalante, the ex-chief of tion,” EIR, Feb. 25, 2005; “Nazis, Operation Condor, and Bush’s Privatiza- Cuban intelligence and author of The Plot (Ocean Press). The interview is tion Plan,” EIR, March 25, 2005. cited on www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKposada.htm.

EIR June 17, 2005 International 29 assassination.6 Others have pointed out that Orlando Bosch involved in a plot to assassinate on a visit to and Guillermo Novo, among other Operation 40 operatives, on Nov. 31.16 travelled to Dallas a few days before the assassination.7 This same unit was deployed in the 1970s to participate The Venezuelan Connection to in Operation Condor. In December 1974, Orlando Bosch, Operation Condor Guillermo Novo, and Dionisio Sua´rez travelled to Santiago, In March 1974, Chilean DINA chief Juan Manuel Con- Chile to offer their services to General Pinochet.8 It was treras visited CIA Deputy Director Vernon Walters. Walters Sua´rez and Virgilio Paz who later triggered the bomb that then sent eight high-level CIA agents to give classes in Chile, killed former Chilean Foreign and Defense Minister Orlando which lasted until August 1974. At that point, the chief of the Letelier and his associate Ronni Moffitt in Washington, D.C. CIA delegation, and Stewart D. Burton, the CIA station chief on Sept. 21, 1976, a crime for which they were convicted.9 A in Santiago, requested that the CIA stay in Chile, to take jobs declassified FBI report confirms a meeting between exiled inside DINA. Contreras claims that he and his boss Pinochet and Pinochet on March 17, 1975, in which Pinochet rejected the proposal.17 offered them financial assistance, on the condition they help The model for this proposal was the arrangement already create a unified fascist international.10 in place in Venezuela, whose DISIP intelligence service, Posada, a former lieutenant in the United States Army, manned by CIA-trained officers, many born in Cuba like Po- received his training at Fort Benning in Georgia, where he sada, had become a virtual subsidiary of the CIA. Both took an intelligence staff officer course.11 He is both a marks- Orlando Garc´ıaVa´zquez of the DISIP and Carlos Andre´s man and a demolitions expert.12 According to the FBI, in Pe´rez have confirmed that at least one CIA officer was posted 1965, Jorge Ma´s Canosa paid Posada to blow up a Cuban or full-time and had operational duties in the offices of the Soviet vessel in the Port of Veracruz, Mexico.13 That same Armed Forces Intelligence Service in Caracas, which was the year, the FBI reported that he was implicated in a plot to Venezuelan equivalent of the CIA.18 overthrow the government of Guatemala.14 After a meeting with Walters in August 1975 at CIA head- In July 1967, Posada was officially dropped as a CIA quarters, Colonel Manuel Contreras and another DINA offi- asset, but then was reinstated in October, when he was ap- cer went directly from Washington to Caracas, Venezuela on proached by the CIA with an offer to join the Venezuelan Aug. 27. According to Contreras, it was Walters who sug- secret police (DISIP),15 where he became chief of security gested he go there, the first stop on a tour he made to Ibero- and counterintelligence (Division 54). In 1971, Posada was American capitals to propose the organization of Operation Condor. Three other DINA officials had flown in separately from Santiago. Rafael Rivas Va´squez, head of the DISIP, 6. Ibid. met with Contreras at the airport and then took him to dinner 7. According to , as cited by www.spartacus.- with DISIP’s general commissioner, Orlando Garc´ıa.19 Both schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbosch.htm. Rafael Rivas and Orlando Garc´ıa were Cuban-born and 8. Dinges, John, The Condor Years, (New York: The New Press, 2004), p. CIA-trained. 128; Peter Kornbluh, The Pinochet File (New York: The New Press, 2003), In his meetings with Rivas and Garc´ıa, Contreras invited p. 332. Venezuela to participate in Operation Condor, which was 9. Dinges, op. cit., pp. 90-91; Kornbluh, op. cit., p. 344. founded in Santiago three months later, on Nov. 25. After the 10. The Cuban newspaper Granma, March 26, 2003 reported on the declassi- Pinochet coup, many of Chile’s exile leaders had settled in fied FBI document. Cited on afrocubaweb.com. Caracas. According to Garc´ıa, Contreras wanted the DISIP to 11. Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation 1993, cited on www.spartacus.- capture these exiles in Venezuela and turn them over to Chile schoolnet.co.uk/JFKposada.htm. Orlando Bosch also received military train- 20 ing at Fort Benning, and after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, ran an anti-Castro for elimination. Contreras wanted information about all their training camp for the CIA in Homestead, Florida. activities, including flight information about their travels. He 12. That Posada was in charge of demolitions at the DISIP is reported in CIA, reported to the Venezuelans that the leftist umbrella group, April 17, 1972, Personal Record Questionnaire on Posada available from the the Revolutionary Coordinating Junta (JCR), was planning to U.S. National Security Archives.

13. FBI, July 7, 1965, “Luis Posada Carriles,” reports that the CIA’soffice 16. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKposada.htm. in Mexico sent a report entitled “Intention of Cuban Representation in Exile (RECE) to Blow up a Cuban or Soviet Vessel in Veracruz, Mexico.” Jorge 17. Dinges, op. cit., pp. 68-69. Ma´s Canosa, then head of RECE, made a $5,000 payment to Posada to 18. Ibid., p. 70. sabotage the ships. 19. Ibid., p. 105. Orlando Garc´ıa now also lives in Miami. 14. FBI, May 17, 1965, “Roberto Alejos Arzu; Luis Sierra Lo´pez, neutrality 20. Ibid., p. 105. According to Garc´ıa: “Contreras wanted us to capture matters, Internal Security-Guatemala,” links Posada to the plot. Chilean exiles [in Venezuela] and turn them over to Chile with no legalities. 15. FBI, Oct. 16, 1976, Retransmission of CIA Trace Report cited by the He wanted us to just put them on a plane and Chile would pay the fare. He National Security Archive. DISIP was created out of the DIGEPOL (Direc- said, ‘we have to eliminate the enemies.’ I knew that to eliminate meant ony cion General de Policia.) one thing—we knew the people he captured would be tortured and killed.”

30 International EIR June 17, 2005 brella organization called the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU), headed by Orlando Bosch.24 Soon after the founding of CORU, on Sept. 21, 1976, Guillermo Novo and other members of the Cuban Nationalist Movement, which merged into CORU, participated in the as- sassination of former Chilean Foreign and Defense Minister in Washington, D.C. This assassination was carried out by Operation Condor. When Posada was arrested in connection with the bombing of the Cubana Airlines plane, he was reportedly found with a map of Wash- ington showing Letelier’s daily route to work.25 Both the assassination of Letelier and PR/Ricardo Stuckert the bombing of the Cubana Airlines Flight The March 29 summit on Ibero-American integration, held in Venezuela. President 455 fifteen days later were planned at the Hugo Cha´vez’s moves toward such an alliance for development are not to the liking of June 11, 1976 meeting in Santo Domingo.26 the Bush Administration. Left to right: Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, Spanish As early as June 22, 1976, a CIA document Prime Minister Rodrı´guez Zapatero, Venezuelan President Cha´vez, and Brazilian President Lula da Silva. reported that a “usually reliable” source stated that Bosch “plans to place a bomb on a Cubana Airline flight traveling between Panama and .”27 CORU then partic- move its headquarters from to Caracas. Con- ipated in the founding of Spanish fascist Blas Pin˜ar’s Fascist treras said that if Venezuela signed up for Operation Condor, International in Rome in October 1976.28 (In August 1976, then DINA would assign a liaison officer to its embassy in Ne´stor Sa´nchez had become the CIA station chief in Ma- Caracas. Contreras also gave DISIP a set of codes and ciphers drid, Spain.29) 21 to be used in telex communications for the new system. According to declassified U.S. intelligence documents, Venezuelan President Carlos Andre´sPe´rez (known as Posada and Bosch are regarded as the “engineers” of the Octo- CAP), who was President from 1974-78, formally rejected ber 1976 bombing of Cubana Airlines Flight 455.30 In Septem- 22 joining Operation Condor. However, there is no doubt that ber 1976, after the Letelier assassination and prior to the Posada and other Cuban-born CIA agents associated with the DISIP and connected with Vernon Walters and Ne´stor 24. FBI, Aug. 16, 1978, Secret Report, “Coordinacion de Organizaciones Sa´nchez collaborated with Contreras. In March 1974, Posada Revolucionarias unidas (Coordination of United Revolutionary Organiza- formally left the DISIP and started his own private security tions) (CORU), Neutrality matters—Cuba—(Anti-Castro).” This report also agency, the Investigaciones Comerciales e Industriales, C.A. states that in 1978, Frank Castro, the Miami chief of CORU, said that Brigade (ICI—Industrial and Commercial Investigations), which Cu- 2506 would be reintegrated into CORU. ban Gen. Fabian Escalante has claimed was “a CIA front . . . 25. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKposada.htm. probably connected with Operation Condor.” When Posada 26. Tim Weiner, “Cuba Exile Could Test a U.S. Definition of Terrorist,” New left the DISIP, “Mono” Morales Navarrete took his place as York Times, May 9, 2005. Weiner reports that Carter Cornick, a retired FBI counterterrorism specialist, said that “both bombings were planned at a June head of Division 54, the counterintelligence section of 1976 meeting in Santo Domingo.” DISIP.23 27. A CIA document dated June 22, 1976 is titled “Possible Plans of Cuban Exile Extremists to blow up a Cubana airliner.” Although the original plan The Letelier Assassination and to blow up Cubana Flight 467 on June 21 did not take place, this report shows Cubana Airlines Bombing CIA foreknowledge of Bosch’s plans, which were realized in October. On June 11, 1976, all of the anti-Castro Cuban exile 28.HenrickKruger, TheGreatHeroinCoup—Drugs, Intelligence&Interna- groups met in the to create a new um- tional Fascism (Boston: South End Press, 1980). 29. Philip Agee and Louis Wolf, Dirty Work, The CIA in Western Europe (Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart Inc., 1978). 21. Ibid., p. 106. 30. FBI, Oct. 7, 1976, Secret Intelligence Report, “Suspected Bombing of 22. As Venezuela’s Minister of the Interior, CAP had been a fervent anti- Cubana Airlines DC-I Near Barbados.”“The source all but admitted that communist, but as President in 1974, he opposed Pinochet’s methods. Posada and Bosch had engineered the bombing of the airline,” according to 23. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JKFposada.htm. the report.

EIR June 17, 2005 International 31 bombing of the Cuban airliner, Bosch stated: “Now that our organization has come out of the Letelier job looking good, we are going to try something else.”31 A CIA source also overheard Posada stating: “We are going to hit a Cuban air- liner.”32 The two individuals who placed the bomb on the plane, Herma´n Ricardo and Freddy Lugo, worked for Posa- da’s security agency.33 Ricardo claimed that the bombing had been organized by Posada and Bosch.34 Both Ricardo and Lugo were convicted and sentenced to 20 years impris- onment. After the CORU meeting in the Dominican Republic, Bosch went to and then arrived in Caracas on Sept. 8 with a fake Dominican passport, invited by Orlando Garc´ıa. “Mono” Morales Navarete, who had replaced Posada in 1974 as the head of Division 54 in the DISIP and was Garc´ıa’s deputy, told an FBI agent that there were two meetings in Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who launched Operation Condor in 1975. Posada Carriles was part of the CIA- Caracas at which the bombing was planned. One was in the linked networks involved in this campaign of extermination against Hotel Anauco Hilton in Caracas and the other in Morales’s Pinochet’s opponents throughout the continent. room at the Hilton. Both meetings were attended by Posada Carriles. Morales said that “some people in the Venezuelan government are involved in this airplane bombing, and that if can Affairs,39 from which position he oversaw the operations Posada Carriles talks, then Morales Navarrete and others in in which Posada was involved. the Venezuelan government will ‘go down the tube.’ We’ll (In 1963, Sa´nchez had himself been involved in attempt- have our own Watergate.”35 ing to organize an assassination plot against Castro.40 From Posada and Bosch were arrested in Venezuela on Oct. 14, 1965-67, he had been CIA station chief in Venezuela, when 1976 for their involvement in the bombing. In 1985, Posada Posada was recruited by the CIA to join the DISIP. Sa´nchez escaped from a Venezuelan prison and went to El Salvador was CIA station chief in Guatemala from 1967-68, and in to work for the illegal CIA-run Contra resupply operation, Colombia from 1972-74.41) under the pseudonym Ramo´n Medina. He worked as the 36 deputy of Fe´lix Rodr´ıguez (pseudonym—Max Go´mez). Po- A Bush Family Terrorist sada also functioned as Eugene Hasenfus’s translator.37 The Bush family has a long-standing relationship with the Rodr´ıguez had been sent to El Salvador in 1985 by Ne´stor anti-Castro, Cuban-exile community and has acted repeatedly Sa´nchez, with the approval of Vice President George H.W. to harbor a network of known terrorists. Current Gov. .38 Sa´nchez, who had been Latin American Division Bush, in particular, has worked closely with Camilio Pa- Chief, CIA Directorate of Operations in the 1970s, was now dreda, a former intelligence officer in Florida with the Batista U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Inter-Ameri- dictatorship overthrown by Castro; and with Miguel Re- carey, who had assisted the CIA in attempts to assassinate 31. Memo written on Oct. 18, 1976 to Secretary of State Kissinger from Castro. Jeb Bush had also been the campaign manager for Harold H. Saunders. Cuban-American politician Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, when she 32. Ibid. ran for Congress in Florida. One of the cornerstones of her 33. FBI, Oct. 7, 1976, op. cit. campaign was “Free Orlando Bosch.” 34. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKposada.htm In 1987, after meeting with Ros-Lehtinen at the request 35. FBI, Nov. 2, 1976, Secret Intelligence Report, “Bombing of Cubana of Jeb Bush, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush inter- Airlines DC-8 Near Barbados, West Indies, October 6, 1976,” available from vened to effect the release of Orlando Bosch from prison in the National Security Archives. Venezuela, via , the U.S. Ambassador to Vene- 36. Sept. 2, 1986 Contra re-supply document, Distribution of Warehoused Contra Weapons and Equipment in Spanish with English Translation, avail- able from the National Security Archives. 39. EPIIC: Archives, 1988, Covert Action and Democracy: An Interna- 37. Hasenfus was the mercenary pilot whose plane was shot down over tional Symposium. Nicaragua and who was captured by Nicaraguan authorities. His capture for 40. Ne´stor Sa´nchez and Desmond FitzGerald met with Rolando Cubela in a the first time exposed the illegal Contra resupply operation being run by Vice Paris hotel on Nov. 22, 1963. Cubela was to assassinate Castro with a poison President George H.W. Bush. See Democracy Now, May 9, 2005 interview pen, which they gave him. See Peter Dale Scott, “The Kennedy-CIA Diver- of , a columnist for online magazine Slate and author of gence over Cuba,” in Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (Berkeley: Univer- Cuba Exile. sity of California Press, 1996). 38. See www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap 29.htm. 41. See footnote 38.

32 International EIR June 17, 2005 zuela. Bosch then entered the U.S. illegally in 1988, where he was granted asylum. He was represented by Florida attorney Uganda Raoul Cantero, the grandson of Cuban dictator ; Jeb Bush appointed Cantero to the Florida Supreme Court in 2002. On July 18, 1990, the senior President George Bush granted Bosch residency in the United States.42 Is President Museveni In November 2000, Posada and three of his colleagues, including Guillermo Novo, were arrested and imprisoned after trying to assassinate Castro once again, this time at the Losing U.S. Support? 43 University of Panama. Novo had been convicted along with by Lawrence Freeman Sua´rez and Paz for his participation in the Letelier assassina- tion, but his conviction was overturned on appeal in 1981. He and his brother Ignacio then got jobs as “information officers” For almost 20 years, since President Yoweri Museveni for Jorge Ma´s Canosa’s CANF. emerged from “the bush” to take dictatorial control of According to journalist Ann Louise Bardach, just weeks Uganda, he has received unwavering support from the princi- before Sept. 11, 2001 both Sua´rez and Paz, who had also pal Western political and financial institutions centered in the been convicted for the Letelier-Moffitt assassination in United States and the United Kingdom. At a June 2 forum in Washington, D.C., were released from prison by Attorney Washington, D.C., entitled, “Uganda: An African ‘Success’ General John Ashcroft, at the intercession of Jeb Bush.44 In Past Its Prime,” two speakers not representing any policy September 2004, Posada and his three co-conspirators were institution, presented detailed criticisms of the Museveni re- suddenly pardoned in Panama, only four months after they gime, for the first time in a significant public forum outside were convicted and sentenced to 8-9 years in jail. The pardon of those organized by the LaRouche movement. Although it was reportedly negotiated in Miami by Ruby Moscoso, is not yet known for certain, if this portends a major policy sister of then-Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso.45 Po- reorientation, at the very least it shows signs of a reversal of sada’s co-conspirators, all of whom are U.S. citizens, re- a decade’s long “love affair” with Museveni. turned to their homes in Miami just prior to the November The surfacing of this “critique” caused quite a stir among 2004 elections.46 Since Orlando Bosch had been granted residency by the senior George Bush, both Sua´rez and Paz were released from prison thanks to Jeb Bush, and Guillermo Novo had also been allowed to return to Florida, Posada clearly thought that the The Great Lakes Region Bushes would now come to his rescue as well. All of the terrorist actions which occurred in 1976, took place while George H.W. Bush was head of the CIA. Posada Carriles’s deployment to El Salvador occurred when Vice President Kisangani George H.W. Bush was responsible for directing the Contra resupply effort. DEMOCRATIC Lake Dick Cheney and George W. Bush are clearly in a bind. Edward REPUBLIC They either extradite Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela, and L u a l a OF THE UGANDA risk that he will reveal the secrets of four decades of involve- b

a ment of Bush family assets in the organization of a fascist CONGO international, or they protect him and stand exposed before Goma the world as protectors of an international terrorist apparatus. RWANDA Lake ✪ Kigali Either way, the case of Luis Posada Carriles is the thread, Kivu which if pulled, can expose the Bush War on Terrorism as the fraud it has always been. Bukavu BURUNDI 42. “The Bush Dynasty and the Cuban Criminals,” The Guardian, Dec. Uvira ✪ 2, 2002. Bujumbura 43. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKposada.htm. 44. Bardach interview, op. cit., footnote 37. She interviewed Posada in 1998 for the New York Times. Lake Tanganyika 45. Granma, April 7, 2005, cited on Afrocubaweb.com. TANZANIA 46. The Miami Herald, Sept. 4, 2004.

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